RT Article
T1 Age–crime relation in India: similarity or divergence vs. Hirschi/Gottfredson inverted j-shaped projection?
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 59
IS 1
SP 144
OP 165
A1 Steffensmeier, Darrell J. 1942-
A2 Lu, Yunmei
A2 Kumar, Sumit
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1586202421
AB In this study, we used age–crime statistics from India to investigate the two core tenets of Hirschi and Gottfredson’s (HG) invariance thesis that the age distribution of crime is always and everywhere adolescent spiked and thereafter declines continuously into elder ages. Besides comparisons to the inverted J-shaped distribution projected by HG, we further compared Indian age–crime patterns with those in United States (Western nation; main evidential source for HG invariance projection) and Taiwan (like India, a non-Western collectivist society). Findings suggest considerable divergence in India’s age–crime patterns compared with HG invariance norm and US age–crime distributions, but overall similarity with Taiwan’s age–crime schedules. Implications for research and theory on the age–crime relation more broadly are discussed.
K1 Age–crime
K1 Cross-national
K1 Life course/developmental
K1 Culture
K1 Youth crime
K1 Hirschi, Travis
K1 Gottfredson, Michael R.
K1 Indien
DO 10.1093/bjc/azy011